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> To me it speaks volumes how restrictive and hostile the Chinese market is to foreign companies, can you imagine having to do the same for each country? China
by pm90 7y ago
> To me it speaks volumes how restrictive and hostile the Chinese market is to foreign companies, can you imagine having to do the same for each country?
China is the most populated country on earth and an emerging superpower. They have every right to consider themselves exceptional, just the way the US considers itself exceptional.
To posit another angle: most international nations are smaller markets than the US (individually) so it doesn't make sense to customize things for every nation, which would be a goddamn nightmare. But this is a country of over 1.3 Billion people. China would need to be an exception anyway, and AWS having a subsidiary in China doesn't illustrate the unfairness of China's practices as much as the reality of how important that market really is.
- jacquesm 7y ago> international nations What's an international nation?
- rhino369 7y agoYou are just rationalizing China’s purposeful one way trade barriers.
- pm90 7y agoExplain to me how billions of dollars in subsidies for agriculture are not one way trade barriers.
- kazagistar 7y agoIf all China was doing was investing in it's own industries and sponsoring them, it would be very different from it's current policy of actually locking out competitors who dont have a local presence and such. There is a steep difference between positive economic assistance and negative legal barriers.
- echaozh 7y agoWithout a local presence, how can the business be hold responsible if there's misdeed? US senators may even want to deny Huawei compensation for patent infringement in the US.
- rhino369 7y agoIt definitely is. But the magnitude is much different. China makes it very hard to do business in a wide spectrum of industries. That's their right. But it's not free trade in any sense.
- davemp 7y ago> China is the most populated country on earth and an emerging superpower. They have every right to consider themselves exceptional, just the way the US considers itself exceptional. Being highly populated and powerful is not really an exception in history. The USA got (? gets) its sense of exceptionalism from their innovative form of government/constitution that provided more freedoms than any government in history. The roots are based in a sense morality.
- 18pfsmt 7y agoThere is a notable anti-US, anti-liberal (in the classical sense) contingent on HN that is somewhat recent. These people hate the US, but can't stop visiting our websties to tell us about it. It is getting out of hand. America is not a place, it's an idea (I realize you get this idea).
- pm90 7y agoExpressing criticism about American policy isn't the same as being anti-US. I would argue that it is people like you who are the real haters of what America stands for. Hint: America is not about flag waiving, native pride that you betray in your statements ("can't stop visiting _our_ websties ")
- 18pfsmt 7y agoI know where the servers for HN are hosted (as does anyone that cares), and it's not in your country. Our servers. Yes we give you access more than you deserve, but dang does his thing quite well.
- 18pfsmt 7y agoIf any of your people believe these ideas, I will pick you up at Denver Airport, and deliver you anywhere you like.